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Centre's 10% quota for economically weak gets Parliament approval
10 Jan 2019
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill, 2019, with 165 'ayes' and seven `nays’ after the Lok Sabha approved it on Tuesday with 323 lawmakers supporting it and three voting against it
Rajnath Singh introduces Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha
08 Jan 2019
The Act, which seeks to grant citizenship to migrant Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, allows the persecuted migrants to reside in any Indian state or union territory
SC reinstates exiled CBI Chief Alok Verma, quashes govt order
08 Jan 2019
The apex court set aside the centre's decision to divest the CBI director of his powers and said the committee which appointed the CBI director will have to consider matter afresh
It's Cong govt in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
12 Dec 2018
While the Congress has absolute majority in the Chhattisgarh assembly, it is close to majority in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
Former bureaucrat Shaktikanta Das appointed RBI governor
11 Dec 2018
Das, an experienced bureaucrat who has held key positions both under the ruling BJP as well the previous UPA government, had also worked closely with the central bank and is currently a member of the Finance Commission of India and government’s representative at the G 20 summits
BJP faces biggest poll reversal as 3 states veer away
11 Dec 2018
BJP has been done down by a combination of factors, including rural dissatisfaction, especially among farmers, failure to create jobs for the youth and the lynching of people by the so-called save-the-cow brigade
ISB Professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian appointed new CEA
07 Dec 2018
Subramanian, one of the world’s leading experts in banking and economic policy, serves on the RBI expert committee on governance of banks and is a member of Sebi’s Standing Committee on Alternative Investment Policy headed by Narayana Murthy
RBI to trim banks’ liquidity reserve ratio to 18% in 6 quarters
06 Dec 2018
Since the reduction in SLR from 19.5 per cent to 18 per cent will limit banks’ need for government securities, finance ministry officials say the measure that will help release over Rs1,00,000 crore of liquidity into the system will have some implications for the government securities
Aircel-Maxis case: CBI gets govt sanction to prosecute Chidambaram
26 Nov 2018
In a major blow to former union minister and senior Congress leader, P Chidambaram, the centre has given sanction to prosecute him in the Aircel Maxis case
J-K assembly dissolved, new alliance plan stymied
22 Nov 2018
The dissolution of the assembly comes as a respite for political watchers after a day of political speculation about the banding together of divergent groups that are friendly to terror
PDP-Congress-NCP alliance set to form govt in Kashmir
21 Nov 2018
If talks succeed, Altaf Bukhari, a senior PDP leader and former finance minister under the PDP-BJP coalition government and Jammu and Kashmir’s richest legislator, could be the new chief minister, say reports
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